The effect of physical activity on healthcare professionals’ work motivation and burnout levels during the covid-19 pandemic: An Istanbul example

Selin Baikoğlu

African Educational Research Journal
Published: October 5 2020
Volume 8, Issue 4
Pages 674-680
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.84.20.130

Abstract

The study aimed to examine the work motivation and burnout levels of healthcare professionals who do physical activity in leisure to protect their physical and psychosocial health in the hard times of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study sample consisted of 152 healthcare professionals working at regular office hours in a public hospital in Istanbul. The data collection instruments included a personal information form, The Maslach Burnout Scale, and Work Motivation Scale. The data obtained from the instruments were evaluated with the SPSS package program, and frequency analysis was performed for demographic information. Besides, simple linear regression analysis, One Way Variance Analysis (ANOVA), and independent-sample t-test analysis was carried out. The significance level was set at p < 0.05. As a result of the study, it was found that especially the nurses' emotional burnout scores (X = 3.32) were higher than other healthcare professionals (X = 2.92). It was also concluded that healthcare professionals with high levels of emotional burnout experienced depersonalization and decreases in personal achievement, and external motivations resources such as wages and rewards also increased. It is an actual result to indicate that weekly exercise frequency did not affect the healthcare professionals’ burnout levels but positively affected work motivation.

Keywords: Covid-19, physical activity, burnout, motivation.

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